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OrlandoJUG October Open Spaces Meeting Rocked!

We had a great time at the OrlandoJUG meeting tonight. It was an Open Spaces style meeting and a potluck dinner. We had some new faces and certainly covered interesting topics:

1. Cloud Computing

2. JavaOne 2011

3. Managing dev, test and production environments

4. OSGi - what it is and how it's used

5. Computational Linguistics

Thanks to Oracle for providing nice Java 7 T shirts!

Thanks to DeVry for hosting us, as always!

And, most of all, thanks to the bright, enthusiastic members of the Orlando Java User Group for making this a very informative meeting!

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